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Alen  
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 More options Oct 12 2012, 10:50 am
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From: Alen <al...@westserv.net.au>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:49:57 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Fri, Oct 12 2012 10:49 am
Subject: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)

Until now I have argued verbally that the spacetime diagram,
and the Minkowski spacetime it represents, cannot portray
a really existing spacetime. This time I have added a page
to my website on which these arguments are presented
as illustrations on actual spacetime diagrams. The page
also contains some text, but the diagrams speak for
themselves, so it is not necessary to read the text in order
to understand what they are saying. The failures of the
spacetime diagram, and the associated Minkowski spacetime,
are all marked in red on the diagrams.

http://www.alenspage.net/SpacetimeDiagram.htm

I would add, here, that all those so-called crackpots, like
Henri Wilson, Androcles, and others who have rejected
the SR light postulate outright as an impossible fabrication,
or whatever, have always been correct. A universal velocity
of a single light pulse in all frames at once cannot exist in
real spacetime. My solution for implementing the light
postulate does not change that fact, because it produces
only an APPARENT universal velocity of light, but not
a real universal velocity of a single light pulse.

Alen


 
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From: "Dirk Van de moortel" <dirkvandemoor...@hotspam.not>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:03:37 +0200
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Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
"Alen" <al...@westserv.net.au> wrote in message

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"Light pulse no 2 has no presence in the moving frame"
You still haven't got the foggiest idea about what a point in the
diagram represents. It is clear that you are even *more* stupid
than Henri Wilson, Androcles and others.
You are getting worse by the day :-|

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From: Big Dog <big.fing....@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:27:35 -0500
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Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On 10/12/2012 9:49 AM, Alen wrote:

> A universal velocity
> of a single light pulse in all frames at once cannot exist in
> real spacetime.

On what basis do you make this statement? What is the argument for this
impossibility?

 
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 More options Oct 12 2012, 11:36 am
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From: "Lord Androcles, Zeroth Earl of Medway" <LordAndroc...@October2012.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:36:32 +0100
Local: Fri, Oct 12 2012 11:36 am
Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)

"Alen" <al...@westserv.net.au> wrote in message news:9f404e84-3c42-4a55-b011-eaf79a67eff0@p5g2000pbs.googlegroups.com...

The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)

Until now I have argued verbally that the spacetime diagram,
and the Minkowski spacetime it represents, cannot portray
a really existing spacetime. This time I have added a page
to my website on which these arguments are presented
as illustrations on actual spacetime diagrams. The page
also contains some text, but the diagrams speak for
themselves, so it is not necessary to read the text in order
to understand what they are saying. The failures of the
spacetime diagram, and the associated Minkowski spacetime,
are all marked in red on the diagrams.

http://www.alenspage.net/SpacetimeDiagram.htm
=============================================
The ray does not return to vt as your diagram shows it should.
It continue on going to the left until it reaches 0.
  http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/figures/img22.gif
Don’t correct Einstein’s idiocy for him otherwise you are not
showing SR as it really is. The length of the rod extends from
0’ to x’,  so its length is  x’-0’   = (x-vt) - (0-vt) = x.
The ray returns to 0, not 0’ as you’ve shown but not what Einstein
has written.
The length of the moving rod is then made LONGER, x’ is divided
by a number less than 1.
I don’t need to tell you Dork Van de faggot is an idiot, but perhaps
you should be aware that Einstein and Minkowski were both idiots.
-- This message is brought to you from the keyboard of
Lord Androcles, Zeroth Earl of Medway

I would add, here, that all those so-called crackpots, like
Henri Wilson, Androcles, and others who have rejected
the SR light postulate outright as an impossible fabrication,
or whatever, have always been correct. A universal velocity
of a single light pulse in all frames at once cannot exist in
real spacetime. My solution for implementing the light
postulate does not change that fact, because it produces
only an APPARENT universal velocity of light, but not
a real universal velocity of a single light pulse.

Alen


 
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 More options Oct 12 2012, 1:55 pm
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From: Uwe Hayek <haye...@nospam.xs4all.nl>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:52:56 +0200
Local: Fri, Oct 12 2012 1:52 pm
Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On 10/12/2012 5:27 PM, Big Dog wrote:
> On 10/12/2012 9:49 AM, Alen wrote:
>> A universal velocity
>> of a single light pulse in all frames at once cannot exist in
>> real spacetime.

> On what basis do you make this statement? What is the argument for this
> impossibility?

What is the argument for it's *possibility* ?

Little Green Fairies that make motionless objects collide ?

Uwe Hayek.


 
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From: Big Dog <big.fing....@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:00:37 -0500
Local: Fri, Oct 12 2012 2:00 pm
Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On 10/12/2012 12:52 PM, Uwe Hayek wrote:

> On 10/12/2012 5:27 PM, Big Dog wrote:
>> On 10/12/2012 9:49 AM, Alen wrote:
>>> A universal velocity
>>> of a single light pulse in all frames at once cannot exist in
>>> real spacetime.

>> On what basis do you make this statement? What is the argument for this
>> impossibility?

> What is the argument for it's *possibility* ?

The fact that it is observed in experiment. This should be enough to
admit the possibility.

Now, what is the argument for its IMpossibility?


 
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From: Uwe Hayek <haye...@nospam.xs4all.nl>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:06:25 +0200
Local: Fri, Oct 12 2012 2:06 pm
Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On 10/12/2012 8:00 PM, Big Dog wrote:

> On 10/12/2012 12:52 PM, Uwe Hayek wrote:
>> On 10/12/2012 5:27 PM, Big Dog wrote:
>>> On 10/12/2012 9:49 AM, Alen wrote:
>>>> A universal velocity
>>>> of a single light pulse in all frames at once cannot exist in
>>>> real spacetime.

>>> On what basis do you make this statement? What is the argument for this
>>> impossibility?

>> What is the argument for it's *possibility* ?

> The fact that it is observed in experiment.

Two way speed of light is NOT THE SAME as one way speed of light.

And length contraction makes it impossible to measure.

That makes it unobservable.

> This should be enough to
> admit the possibility.
> Now, what is the argument for its IMpossibility?

The mechanism is an impossible one.

Uwe Hayek.


 
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From: Big Dog <big.fing....@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:17:26 -0500
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Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On 10/12/2012 1:06 PM, Uwe Hayek wrote:

Two-way speed of light measurement plus isotropy measurement completely
constrains one-way speed of light. This you should be able to convince
yourself of on a beer napkin.

Plus, even if a two-way light speed indicates that that it is universal,
this should indicate the possibility. The *possibility* being allowed,
then the onus is on the one claiming that there IS NO possibility to
prove that.

> And length contraction makes it impossible to measure.

> That makes it unobservable.

>> This should be enough to
>> admit the possibility.

>> Now, what is the argument for its IMpossibility?

> The mechanism is an impossible one.

Why is it impossible?

And how would you go about showing that there is no possible mechanism?
That is, that it CANNOT BE that light has the same speed universally,
independent of mechanism? Prove that. Or at least argue it.


 
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 More options Oct 12 2012, 2:59 pm
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From: Uwe Hayek <haye...@nospam.xs4all.nl>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:57:00 +0200
Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On 10/12/2012 8:17 PM, Big Dog wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_special_relativity#One-way_spee...

QUOTE
However, it should be noted that only the two-way speed of light (from A
to B back to A) can unambiguously be measured,...
UNQUOTE

It is quite obvious that if you would measure identical photons, in two
differently moving frames, and obtain the same result, that something
must have interfered with the measuring process.

Since relativity proves that rods and clocks are variable, it
overwhelmingly points to the measuring process.

The photon does not adapt its speed to the frame, the frame's measuring
devices adapt to exactly measure c.

> And how would you go about showing that there is no possible mechanism?

It does not work that way : I showed you a possible mechanism.

You show me your mechanism that contradicts mine.

> That is, that it CANNOT BE that light has the same speed universally,

If light speed adapted itself to every frame, there would be no need for
length contraction or time dilation.

> independent of mechanism?

Everything has a mechanism. If you cannot explain the mechanism that
means you haven't understood it.

"It seems to me that the test of "Do we or do we not understand a
particular point in physics" is, "Can we make a mechanical model of
it:" "  -  lord Kelvin

> Prove that. Or at least argue it.

I just did.

Uwe Hayek.


 
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 More options Oct 12 2012, 3:18 pm
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From: Big Dog <big.fing....@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:18:23 -0500
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Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On 10/12/2012 1:57 PM, Uwe Hayek wrote:

Yes, what I talked about was the combination of TWO measurements, which
completely constrains the one-way speed of light.

>> Plus, even if a two-way light speed indicates that that it is universal,
>> this should indicate the possibility. The *possibility* being allowed,
>> then the onus is on the one claiming that there IS NO possibility to
>> prove that.

And this statement still stands.

Why is it obvious? Please don't respond with "Because it's impossible."
I've already asked you WHY you think it's impossible.

> Since relativity proves that rods and clocks are variable, it
> overwhelmingly points to the measuring process.

Eh?

> The photon does not adapt its speed to the frame, the frame's measuring
> devices adapt to exactly measure c.

>> And how would you go about showing that there is no possible mechanism?

> It does not work that way : I showed you a possible mechanism.

No, you are the one that claims that it is impossible. Back up your claim.

> You show me your mechanism that contradicts mine.

This mechanism is documented. Have you not read about relativity? Do you
need pointers for the mechanism of relativity?

>> That is, that it CANNOT BE that light has the same speed universally,

> If light speed adapted itself to every frame, there would be no need for
> length contraction or time dilation.

So what? You've just said that it is impossible for light to be measured
to have value c in two frames, and then you just now have proposed a
scheme by which it is possible. So what exactly are you claiming?

>> independent of mechanism?
> Everything has a mechanism. If you cannot explain the mechanism that
> means you haven't understood it.

Bullshit. Here you are baiting to be spoonfed on usenet again. Would you
like some pointers to good materials on relativity, or do you need your
meat cut for you?

> "It seems to me that the test of "Do we or do we not understand a
> particular point in physics" is, "Can we make a mechanical model of
> it:" "  -  lord Kelvin

It seems to me that things have progressed a little bit since Kelvin,
who also was completely flummoxed about why atoms don't radiate and why
the earth was far older than he thought it could be.

>> Prove that. Or at least argue it.

> I just did.

How so? You proved no impossibility whatsoever. You just said you had a
different idea how it could be possible.


 
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:25:37 -0500
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Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On 10/12/12 9:49 AM, Alen wrote:

> The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)

   I got one for you, Alen.

http://www.phys.vt.edu/~takeuchi/relativity/practice/enterprise_super...


 
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:49:20 -0500
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Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On 10/12/2012 2:18 PM, Big Dog wrote:

It amuses me, "Uwe", that your idea of a proof of impossibility takes
various forms:

"You have not supplied a mechanism that I believe. Therefore it is
impossible."
"You haven't proven that you understand the mechanism you claim.
Therefore it is impossible."
"I have an alternate mechanism for how it is possible. Therefore your
mechanism is impossible and the whole thing is impossible."

It's like you finding a pile of shit in your mother's front yard, and I
suggest that your mother's dog Bobo laid the pile of shit there. You say
that's impossible. I ask you to prove that it's impossible. You say that
you believe instead that the neighbor's dog Bruno laid the pile of shit
there, which proves that it is impossible that Bobo laid the shit,
because both dogs couldn't have laid the shit. Furthermore, you say,
since it is proven that Bobo didn't lay the pile of shit, then the pile
of shit has been proven not to exist.

It's not so much your dim grasp of physics that is so highly amusing,
it's your general dimness of wits. No matter what your mother says. Or
Bobo, for that matter.


 
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:03:50 +0200
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Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
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Take it one step further.
Since he has shown that the pile of shit has been proven not to exist,
and since you claim that it was laid by Bobo, he also has proven that
Bobo cannot exist.

> It's not so much your dim grasp of physics that is so highly amusing,
> it's your general dimness of wits. No matter what your mother says. Or
> Bobo, for that matter.

But there is no Bobo in his universe.

Dirk Vdm


 
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:07:59 +0200
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Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
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> On 10/12/12 9:49 AM, Alen wrote:
>> The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)

>   I got one for you, Alen.

> http://www.phys.vt.edu/~takeuchi/relativity/practice/enterprise_super...

Yes, there's a lot of really excellent and beautiful diagrams in those notes at
   http://www.phys.vt.edu/~takeuchi/relativity/notes/
Good webplace.

Dirk Vdm


 
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Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On Oct 12, 2:00 pm, Big Dog <big.fing....@gmail.com> wrote:

xxein:  I guess that you only know a relativity theory of measurement
and not a physic.

 
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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:44:38 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On Oct 13, 12:50 am, Alen <al...@westserv.net.au> wrote:

Nice work, but I think you need to find real explanations for why past
and future do not exist. Unfortunately, I think this is impossible
using math or physics. Besides, I find your explanations quite
convoluted as well as contradictory.

The reason why I do not think past and future exist is as follows.

The past and future are psychological rather than physical realities.
Generally, the human brain is capable of remembering and recalling
information. We call this memory. What I think memory does is absorb
information - via the cause and effect of motion.

For example. To create a memory, something moves, and the brain
somehow records this motion.

While the brain is physically effected by sense data, it is additional
layers of thinking that places motion against a timeline.

There is no doubt that mo


 
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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:42:58 +0200
Local: Sat, Oct 13 2012 6:42 am
Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On 10/12/2012 9:18 PM, Big Dog wrote:

> On 10/12/2012 1:57 PM, Uwe Hayek wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_special_relativity#One-way_spee...

>> QUOTE
>> However, it should be noted that only the two-way speed of light (from A
>> to B back to A) can unambiguously be measured,...
>> UNQUOTE

> Yes, what I talked about was the combination of TWO measurements, which
> completely constrains the one-way speed of light.

Learn English. "ONLY the two way speed of light can UNAMBIGUOUSLY be
measured"

That means the measured one way speed of light is ambiguous, therefore
cannot be exactly determined.

>>> Plus, even if a two-way light speed indicates that that it is universal,

This is incorrect. Therefore your conclusion is also.

Again, again and again  you prove that you have absolutely no insight in
physics whatsoever, and are unable to reason in a logical way.

>> Since relativity proves that rods and clocks are variable, it
>> overwhelmingly points to the measuring process.

> Eh?

What part of time dilation or length contraction you do not understand ?

The correct word is regressed. And not by a small amount.

a little bit since Kelvin,

> who also was completely flummoxed about why atoms don't radiate and why
> the earth was far older than he thought it could be.

>>> Prove that. Or at least argue it.

>> I just did.

> How so? You proved no impossibility whatsoever. You just said you had a
> different idea how it could be possible.

Discussion with you are pointless.

I think we are discussing semantics, and we have a different viewpoint.

I am interested in the ontology or the mechanism, you only in the local
measurement that your textbook prescribes.

I fully agree that you say "two way speed of light is isotropic in all
frames". But the mechanism is that clocks and rods are variable. Light
does not adjust its speed to the frame. And that EXCLUDES the one way
speed of light to be isotropic. Because then light has to adapt its
speed to any frame, and there should be no need for time dilation and
length contraction.

Uwe Hayek.


 
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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 04:39:18 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On Oct 13, 3:45 pm, Uwe Hayek <haye...@nospam.xs4all.nl> wrote:

SR is not a bad theory. It is a rotten theory. You are right, a pulse
of light passing over two observers in relative motion cannot adjusts
its speed as there is no known mechanism by which it can. Therefore,
if light speed is same in all frames then their measuring instruments
must undergo change. However, since all uniform motions are equivalent
and since even SR admits that there is no change in proper time and
proper length, observers moving with different speeds must measure
different speed of light.
It is for this reason; constant speed of light is a postulate and a
wrong one.

 
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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:38:58 +0200
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Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
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See how correct they are at
  http://users.telenet.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/Fumbles/AdditionDoesNo...

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From: Alen <al...@westserv.net.au>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:15:15 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, Oct 13 2012 10:15 am
Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On Oct 13, 2:03 am, "Dirk Van de moortel"

A typical, instantaneous, Vdm reaction :)

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From: Alen <al...@westserv.net.au>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:16:06 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On Oct 13, 2:27 am, Big Dog <big.fing....@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/12/2012 9:49 AM, Alen wrote:

> > A universal velocity
> > of a single light pulse in all frames at once cannot exist in
> > real spacetime.

> On what basis do you make this statement? What is the argument for this
> impossibility?

What do you think my entire post is actually about?

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 More options Oct 13 2012, 10:23 am
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From: Bill Snyder <bsny...@airmail.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:23:25 -0500
Local: Sat, Oct 13 2012 10:23 am
Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:16:06 -0700 (PDT), Alen

<al...@westserv.net.au> wrote:
>On Oct 13, 2:27 am, Big Dog <big.fing....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/12/2012 9:49 AM, Alen wrote:

>> > A universal velocity
>> > of a single light pulse in all frames at once cannot exist in
>> > real spacetime.

>> On what basis do you make this statement? What is the argument for this
>> impossibility?

>What do you think my entire post is actually about?

Your delusions of adequacy.

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Bill Snyder  [This space unintentionally left blank]


 
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From: "Dirk Van de moortel" <dirkvandemoor...@hotspam.not>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:45:12 +0200
Local: Sun, Oct 14 2012 4:45 am
Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)
"Bill Snyder" <bsny...@airmail.net> wrote in message

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Combined with the illusion of supremacy.
Deadly.

Dirk Vdm


 
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 More options Oct 14 2012, 6:51 am
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From: "Y.Porat" <y.y.po...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 03:51:59 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sun, Oct 14 2012 6:51 am
Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)

-----------------------
indeed
no curvature and no schmervature of space

that was a flop of Einstein
space is by definition nothing
so  it has no properties whatsoever
except hosting mass
AND IT IS MASS WHO DOES THE RICK OF ANY ATTRACTION FORCE
(OR REPULSION FORCE )
force is done by force messengers from mass !!

see the Y Porat Circlon idea

ATB
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 More options Oct 14 2012, 8:25 am
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From: jem <x...@xxx.invalid>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 08:27:59 -0400
Local: Sun, Oct 14 2012 8:27 am
Subject: Re: The Failure of Minkowski Spacetime (This Time Illustrated)

Alen wrote:
> On Oct 13, 2:27 am, Big Dog<big.fing....@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 10/12/2012 9:49 AM, Alen wrote:

>>> A universal velocity
>>> of a single light pulse in all frames at once cannot exist in
>>> real spacetime.

>> On what basis do you make this statement? What is the argument for this
>> impossibility?

> What do you think my entire post is actually about?

What do you think it's about, Babble Boy?  I mean when expressed in
words you actually know the meanings of.

 
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